Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-12
CAPITAL EGG ROLLERS.
The President an Interested Spectator
of the Annual Easter Egg Roll
ing Of the Children.
The Committee Inviting Cleveland to an
A2ti-COerciOn Meeting Sees the
Wisdom oi His Declining.
supply Dspots for the Distribution of Pos
tai Cards and stamped Envelopes
10 Be Established.
EASTER EGG ROLLING.


WASHINGTON, April 1.-THE grounds
Immediately south Cf the Presidents
house presented a very pretty picture to-
day. Thousands of children were gath
cred there engaged in the pleasures of
Easter egg rolling, a custom which has
prevailed in this city for ever so many
years. The participants were of all ages,
sizes and conditions of life, from the
| pampeTed child Of luxury, with her French
nurse, to the Door black picsninny with
| bare feet. All had eggs boiled
and dyed, aud made the air ring
with their happy shouts and merry
| laughter as they rolled their eggs and
| themselves down the grassy knobs and
chased each other across the lawns. The
President enjoyed the spectacle very
much. His Office window opened directly
over the scene and he frequently paused
| in his work to gaze upon it. Mrs. Cleve-
land spent the morning at her country
home and so failed to see the children
play. While the Presidents public re-
CeptiOn was in progress in the + !St Room
the children heard Of it and hJcked in
great numbers to shake hands with the
President.
HE COULD NOT GO.
of Irish Americans called at the White
House to-day TO invite the President to
attend a meeting to be held in this city
o-night to protest against the coercion
policy in Ireland. They saw Colonel La
mont and we're informed that Whsteyer
the Presidents views on the subject
might be, il would be m9nifestly improper
for him ID attend such meeting IN his
Official capacity. The committee were
convinced of the wisdom Of this reason
inc and withdrew without = further effort
/ to see the President
POSTAL SUPPLY DEPOTs.
WASHINGTON, April II POSTMASTER
General Villas and General Superintendent
Nash of the raiIway!man service viii leave
/ Washington Tomorrow On EJur OF in
spectiOn OF the fast mail service between
New York, Chicago and St. Paul. Wlile
absent they will consider the feasibility
of establishing depOts at Chicago, St.
Louis and Atlanta for the distribution Of
postal cards and stamped envelopes.
Under the present system these supplies
are sent out from the mandatory
at Carlton, n. Y, in registered
pouches to the individual officers, both
great and small, making reQuisiCiOn there
for. The rapid increase in the number
of pOstOffiCes and the steady increase OF
business ct nearly all of the Iargerofices,
mas rendered this system very cumber-
some. In fact the business Of the COun-
Try has OutgroWn the system, hence
the necessity to supply distributing
offices as contemplated by the Postmaster
General. The experiment viii probably
first be tried st Chicago. Nineteen of
the largest pOsuOfiices which, it is said,
consume about ~ per cent. of all the
postal cards used in the United States,
will be supplied from the mandatory as
now, but by freight instead of registered
mail as is now the custom, thus making
large saving in the cost of transpOrta-
ton. These offices are Baltimore, Bos-
ton, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, CleVe
land. Detroit, Kansas City, Louisville,
New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, st.
Luis, San Francisco, Washington, and
Brooklyn. These arrangements will be
perfected and put into operation as speed
iiy as possible.
TEXAS POsTMAsTERs.
WASHINGTON, April I.-AmOng the
appointments OF posmasters made by the
President are L. II. Harrison. Sulphur
Springs, Tex, vice William A. Workman,
resigned; Charles + Bramble, Texar-
kama, ARK. vice Walter W. Shaw, removed.
THIEF CAPTURED.
WASHINGTON, April 11.-Paymaster
General Rochester has received q tele-
gram from Chief Paymaster Terrell re-
porting that Charles 6. Parker, the man
who several weeks ago robbed Paymaster
Bash of S74, 900, has been captured.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
WASHINGTON, April Il.-SecOnd As
sistant Postmaster General KnOtt to-day
began the award OF contracts for carry
ing mail on S43 miscellaneous star and
steamboat routes for periods hanging
from one 70 four years. All of the states
except Delaware and sll Of the territories
except Alaska and Arizona are repre-
sented on the list.
Special Indian Agent A. s. WeltOn, now
in the city, will leave Tor the west tC-
night to superintend the removal of the
Jacarllla band of ADaches, numbering
about 700 souls, now on the MessalerO
reservation, adjoining the one now Occu-
pied by the Utes, in Northern New
Mexico.